Base of Operations: Area 13, Pine Barrens, New
Jersey;
formerly Greenwich
Village, Manhattan, New York;
formerly Transylvania;
formerly a scientific research facility on the
English countryside;
formerly the British Isles;

First Appearance: Giant-Size Chillers I#1
(June, 1974)

Powers/Abilities: Lilith has all of the
standard powers of a vampire, to a higher degree than most, but
was unencumbered by most of the standard limitations. She has
enhanced human strength (able to life @ 1100 pounds). She can
mesmerize and control others by catching their gaze for three
seconds, though beings with sufficiently strong wills can resist
her to some degree. In addition, she has a much harder time
trying to maintain control over a group of people. She can
transform partially or fully into a bat or mist, she can control
the weather, and she can command animals such as rats, mice,
bats, wolves, and dogs.

Lilith is immune to sunlight
and does not fall into a coma-like trance during daytime hours,
and she is not dependent upon sleeping on her native soil. She is
not affected be religious talismans and can even wield them
herself against other vampires. She is immune to garlic. She
heals almost instantly from wounds, and she cannot even be killed
by dismemberment. She can be killed by a wooden stake through the
heart or the Montesi formula, but as long as Dracula exists, her
spirit will return. Her spirit can enter the form of an innocent
woman who hates her own father, and she can transform that body
into a duplicate of her own. Lilith can also regain her own body
through an elaborate mystical ritual.

Though Lilith is not
dependent upon ingesting human blood to survive, she does savor
its taste. By biting a person on the neck and depositing an
enzyme in their system, she makes her victim highly susceptible
to her commands. The victim also develops a perverse erotic
fixation on Lilith. In addition, if that person dies, they would
rise again in three days as a vampire, though such vampires would
have the conventional vampiric powers and limitations. Not all of
those bitten in such fashion would be reborn as vampires, but the
conditions of such transformations are uncertain.

Lilith possesses a virtually
all-consuming desire to see her father dead, but she is unable to
cause his death directly. Though she can physically strike him,
she would be unable to plunge a stake through his chest. In
addition, as long as Dracula exists, so, too, does Lilith. If
Dracula is destroyed, Lilith could meet her own death, but her
spirit would return as soon as Dracula were resurrected.

Height:
6'
Weight: 125 lbs.
Eyes:
Red
Hair: Black

History:
(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2 (fb) - BTS) - Sometime
between 1451 and 1456, Vlad Dracula was forced by his father Vlad
the Elder into an arranged marriage with a Hungarian noblewoman,
Zofia.

(Tomb of Dracula I#60 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula
invited Zofia on a horseback ride through the Borgo pass towards
their castle, but then slapped her to the ground, telling her how
much he despised her. Back in the castle, Dracula locked Zofia in
the closet while he forced himself on a servant woman. When the
servant woman resisted, Dracula slew her with a knife.

(Giant-Size Chillers I#1 (fb)) - Born to Vlad
Dracula and Zofia, both Lilith and her mother were despised by
Dracula.

(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb)) - Dracula
physically forced Zofia to bring the infant Lilith out on his
balcony so she could see why he was known as Vlad the Impaler.

(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb)/Giant-Size Chillers
I#1 (fb)) - A year after Dracula
and Zofia's wedding, Dracula's had fulfilled his familiar obligation to
the arranged marriage, and he was free to rid himself of the woman
he so despised (see comments). Dracula battered Zofia, stripped
her of her royal
standing, and gave her a single night to leave the Castle with
her belongings, and with Lilith. Dracula intended for Zofia to
live out her days as a penniless peasant.
Having no place else to go, Zofia fled to a
nearby Gypsy camp and sought out the wizened elder, Gretchin. In
exchange for Zofia's remaining gold pieces, Gretchin promised to
care for Lilith as long as she lived. In defiance of Dracula's
intent, Zofia then plunged a dagger through her heart.

Years later, after Dracula had become a
vampire, he slew Arni, the son of Gretchin, in a savage assault
on the gypsies. In retaliation, Gretchin used a magical spell to
transform Lilith into an adult vampire, but without fear of the
sun or crucifix. Gretchin deemed it Lilith's destiny to haunt her
father throughout Eternity, to thwart his plans and to be an
everpresent gadfly, reminding him always of the horror of his
deeds. Furthermore, should Lilith ever die, it was pre-arranged
that she would be reborn in the body of another woman who hated
her father, for as long as Dracula's unlife continued.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe#18) -
Lilith at first attacked humans for blood indiscriminately,
driven by the vampire's animalistic lusts. Eventually she learned
to control her bloodlust to a large degree, and chose usually to
attack only those humans whom she believed were evil enough to
deserve such a fate.

(Tomb of Dracula I#60 (fb))- During the 20th Century, Lilith
interrupted an attempt by Dracula to feed on a woman in Paris by
taking her herself. Lilith vowed that from that point on, she
would feed on her father's victims before he would be able to.
Eventually, the two of them fought in London, and Dracula shoved
her off the top of Big Ben, where she was impaled below on a
spike.

(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb)) - Resurrected by
Gretchin's spell, Lilith continued to oppose Dracula. However, at
some point after this, she and Dracula reconciled their
differences in an uneasy truth, and agreed never to see each
other again.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/4) - Lilith sought a meal
and allowed truck driver Horace Milton Biggotty the Fifth to pick
her up. She pitied him after hearing the story of his pathetic
life and heritage, and thought that killing him might be a
blessing. When she discovered that he was transporting blood to a
hospital, she instead chose to knock him out and drink that
blood, allowing him to live--uncertain whether this was actually
doing him any favors.

(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb)) - Dracula and
Lilith met once again at the home of Quincy Harker on the night
that Harker's wife Elizabeth killed herself from fear of Dracula.
That same night Harker took his revenge by killing Lilith.

(Giant-Size Chillers I#1)- After Martin O'Hara struck and killed
Ted Hannigan for marrying his daughter Angel and making her
pregnant, Lilith was reborn into Angel's body, and slew Martin
O'Hara. She next set after Quincy Harker for revenge, using the
form of Angel O'Hara to gain entrance to his home, and bit him in
the neck. However, Harker survived.

After feeding on a man named Stephen at a bar
in London, Lilith set after her father, and the two of them
recollected their past. Lilith proposed an alliance with Dracula,
but he refused, preferring to continue their quarrel.

(Tomb of
Dracula I#25) - Aboard a jet from London to Kennedy airport in New York,
Lilith drained all 75 passengers and the crew. After the plane landed, the
inhabitants were discovered, and one passenger was noted as being missing.

(OHotMU#18 (fb) - BTS) - Wearying of the
British Isles, Lilith induced Angel to move to New York's
Greenwich Village.

(Vampire Tales#6) - After vamping a pair of
muggers, Lilith returned to the form of Angel O'Hara, and as such
she was drawn to Martin Gold, who had just lost his wife to the
crazy "sex crime" killer. Lilith induced Angel to move
in with the traumatized Gold. That night the killer returned and
tried to take her out, as well, but Lilith slew him instead.

(Dracula Lives#10/4) - In a bar in Greenwich
Village, Lilith beat up and then vamped Duff, a Hell's Angel type
who had become abusive towards a woman singing there. Later, when
Angel's boyfriend Martin was framed by a drug dealer (Tom
MacDonald), Lilith mesmerized the dealer to confess to the
police, then found his superiors (Ace and others) and defeated
them, forcing the ringleader to confess as well. In the course of
the battle she suffered a major head wound, which left Angel with
a severe concussion upon awakening. Angel was taken to a
hospital, where it was revealed to Martin that she was pregnant.

(Dracula Lives#11/3) - Lilith slew a would-be
rapist, and Angel explained to Martin that the baby was her
previous husand's. Angel took work at the East Village Oracle
newspaper, taking classified ads. Her first customer was "Nobody
Anybody Knows," who claimed that he would soon kill. Angel
had no luck convincing anyone to take the threat seriously, until
the killer showed up and slew someone at the Oracle. Lilith then
took over Angel's form and they pursued "Nobody" until
he leapt to his death, having his face crushed in the process.

(Marvel Preview#12) - Martin Gold was hired to write public
relations brochures for the Kallen Chemical Works, and discovered
there that the company's plan to purify the earth's water would
render water incapable of supporting life. After making the
mistake of revealing what he knew to his supposed friend Roger
McGuire, Martin was taken captive by the staff at Kallen. Sensing
this danger, Angel transformed into Lilith, and broke into the
Kallen building to rescue Gold. However, one of Kallen's
bodyguards threw her out of the building.

Returning to the offices, Lilith found
McGuire, and by biting his neck, forced him to tell her where
Kallen was taking Gold. She found their car and flew in through
its windshield, causing it to plunge off the road and into the
river. Lilith brought Gold home to safety, but Kallen and his men
perished.

(Marvel Preview#16/4) - "Death by Disco."
Lilith slew a pair of muggers, while Angel
took an assignment on the Disco Scene. After Angel was accosted
by a pair of overzealous "admirers," Lilith took over
her form and knocked one of them flat. Lilith attracted the
attention of disco king T. J. Novello, who intrigued her with his
moves and attitude. Lilith sought to give TJ the dramatic exit to
life that he felt he deserved, but he was instead shot &
killed by his jealous girlfriend, Della Fiorelli. Lilith slew
Della's assistants (the same pair who had accosted her before),
and she then mesmerized Della to show her her dance moves, too.
Afterwards, Lilith gave Della the end she had intended for TJ,
vamping her.

(Tomb of Dracula I#66)- Having been transformed back into a
human, Dracula sought out Lilith in the hopes of being made back
into a vampire by her. As he was now photographable, Lilith
caught sight of a picture of him in the newspaper, and prepared
for his arrival.

(Tomb of Dracula I#67)- Dracula tracked Lilith down the apartment
home of Martin Gold and Angel O'Hara, and Lilith transformed from
from Angel to her true form while in the shower. When he refused
to depart, Lilith attacked him, deciding to take this opportunity
to slay him once and for all. Their battle lead them into a
theatre, where a play called "Passion of Dracula" was
playing, and the two continued their fight on stage before the
audience. Lilith finally drove Dracula away by summoning armies
of rats and dogs against him, and she vowed that she would
eventually slay him.

(Tomb of Dracula II#5)
- Lilith observed from a distance as Dracula destroyed his Brides
and other vampire servants in a fit of rage. Seeing that this
would make the perfect chance for her to attack her father, she
decided that she must first free herself from her human
component, Angel O'Hara. She sought out Viktor Benzel, the
descendent of Gretchin (who had created Lilith). The two had an
affair, and then Viktor performed an arcane ritual involving the
dismemberment of Lilith that successfully separated the two.
Lilith then confronted Dracula in his Castle and fought him in a
brutal battle. Thinking Lilith might need help, Viktor entered
the castle, but Dracula then slew him. Lilith then swore to end
Dracula's life once and for all, but Dracula challenged her by
handing her a spike and mallet, and baring his chest before.
Lilith leapt at the chance, but was mortified to learn that she
could not physically slay Dracula. Gretchin's curse had made her
his eternal nemesis, not his killer. Dracula mocked her as he
vanished into mist.

(Tomb of Dracula II#6/2) - Lilith spent her
rage against Dracula by trashing her own apartment. Thinking that
Viktor's brother, Karl, might have the means with which she could
slay Dracula, she headed out to meet him. Her car broke down in a
small villa and she stayed there while it was repaired. While
there she was recognized as a vampire and suspected in a series
of grisly murders, which turned out to be the work Siegfried, a
local gardener, who had been killing those who had trampled upon
his violets. After solving the mystery, Lilith left the town
behind.

(Uncanny X-Men Annual#6) - When Shadowcat/Kitty
Pryde's parents filed for a divorce, the young X-Man was so upset
that she briefly hated her parents with all of her heart. Since
she hated her father, she was a suitable host for Lilith, who
possessed her and used her in a plot against her father, who was
in the process of turning another X-Man, Storm, into his slave.
Quickly seducing and biting (but not vamping) Colossus, Lilith/Kitty
confronted Storm in Pendarrow Hill, where she had been sent by
Dracula to obtain a copy of the Montesi formula (a spell to
obliterate vampires). Going so far as to shoot Storm in the
shoulder with an arrow, Lilith/Kitty obtained the book herself.
Lilith and Colossus then confronted Dracula in
his manor off the coast of Cornwall, where the X-Men had arrived
to fight him as well. She began reading the formula, which would
have killed Dracula, but cost Kitty her soul. Nightcrawler
interrupted the spell, and Dracula then recognized Lilith's
presence. Lilith insisted that the X-Men slay Dracula or she
would never release Kitty, but Rachel van Helsing speared Dracula
through the heart. The mansion, kept in existence by Dracula's
magic then collapsed before the final rites could be performed to
permanently slay Dracula. Nonetheless, Lilith thanked the X-Men
for their "assistance," returned Kitty to them, and
vanished into the wind.

(Dr. Strange II#62)- While staying in a villa in southern France,
Lilith was slain by the effects of the Montesi Formula spell
being cast by Dr. Strange. Having already sensed that her father
had died, Lilith died with a smile.

(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#3 (fb)) -
With Dracula resurrected by other means, Lilith, his eternal
nemesis, was restored as well.

(Ghost Rider III#84 (fb) - BTS) - Lilith, who
had always enjoyed drinking blood but had not required it as
normal vampires do, began to develop a new, almost uncontrollable
thirst for blood. Fearing that this bloodlust would distract her
from her mission against her father, Lilith sought out a man who
could help her control the bloodlust: Jericho Drumm, aka Brother
Voodoo. Drumm used some of Lilith's own blood to cast a spell
that would allow him to control her hunger, and in return, she
would help him rid the world of the undead, if that were possible.

(Ghost Rider III#82)
- Brother Voodoo sensed the presence of a zombie awakened by the
Scarecrow and informed Lilith that they had a new mission.

(Ghost Rider III#83) - Voodoo and Lilith
located six corpses stolen from the Cypress Hill Cemetery and
found the seventh corpse, Barbara Ketch, reanimated by the
Scarecrow, who then sent a murder of crows after them. In
response, Lilith summoned an army of rats to fight the crows.

(Ghost Rider III#84) - With the Scarecrow
distracted by a battle against Dan Ketch/Ghost Rider and John
Blaze, the crows dispersed. However, the bloodshed of the
animals' fight unleashed Lilith's bloodlust and Voodoo was forced
to command her to stop when she attacked him for more blood.
Lilith then tracked down the Scarecrow and sent a plague of bats
against him. However, she also saw John Blaze as having defiled
the dead, and attacked him as well.

(Ghost Rider III#85) - Lilith overpowered Blaze
and went forth to drink his blood. Frances Ketch (Dan's adoptive
mother) tried and failed to stop Lilith, who sent her bats to
torment Frances while she went after John again. Blaze recovered
and stabbed Lilith in the leg with a hellfire-charged knife.
Though pained by this, Lilith knocked away Blaze's knife and then
put the bite on him. Voodoo arrived and forced her to stop
drinking his blood. Cursing Voodoo that he would someday push her
too far, Lilith changed into a bat and flew off.

(Spider-Man Unlimited#20)- Having obtained the
Amulet of Damballah, Lilith took control of Simon Garth, the
Zombie, and sent him around New York to bring people to her so
that she could feed on them and transform them into her vampire
servants.

At this time, Lilith had become obsessed with the notion of
finding herself a male vampire to serve as her own general. She
first sought out Morbius, and stole files from Simon Stroud which
lead her to Morbius' friend Dr. Jacob Weisenthal, who was trying
to find a cure for Morbius. She slew him, and continued her
search for Morbius. Happening to encounter Spider-Man, she
assumed the guise of "Lily Drake", Now Magazine
reporter, and convinced him that Morbius was behind the recent
disappearances in New York, hoping Spider-Man would draw Morbius
out of hiding.

At the Club Jugular, a club for vampire wannabes, Lilith
encountered Peter Parker, who was continuing his own search for
Morbius. Before they had a chance to speak, they were interrupted
by Hannibal King, who had been hired by Donna Garth to find her
father's body. As King and Lilith fought, Parker switched to his
Spider-Man identity, but mistakenly fought King, giving Lilith a
chance to attack Spider-Man from behind and hurl him away. Lilith
decided to make King her general, but when Spider-Man returned,
she fled, leaving King behind.

Spider-Man and King formed an alliance against Lilith, but Spider-Man
was soon captured by the Zombie, and brought to Lilith. When King
located Lilith's base, he too was taken captive, and Lilith made
her proposal to him that he become her general. King pretended to
go along with her, only so that he could snatch the Amulet of
Damballah from her. He then ordered the Zombie to free Spider-Man,
and the three of them destroyed her vampires by letting sunlight
into her base. Lilith fled, intending to find another ally.

(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#3 (fb)) - Lilith
traveled to the original Castle Dracula and ransacked the place
out of frustration. Realizing that she couldn't slay Dracula
directly, she decided to attempt aid via scientific means. She
robbed the castle of its priceless treasures, sold them to Audra
Pennington, and used the money to finance her plot. She hired Dr.
Charles Seward to create a virus that would slay Dracula.

(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#1) - Under
Lilith's direction, Seward unleashed his virus, injecting a
vampire, Maltz, that Lilith had captured. Seward then released
Maltz on a human woman, and they found that the virus had had the
successful effect, as the vampire found himself physically
nauseated and utterly unable to swallow the blood. However, the
virus had the unanticipated side of effect of causing a rapidly
progressive purpura hemorrhagica (a disorder involving
uncontrollable bleeding through the skin and every body orifice),
which culminated in a rotting death. The virus was highly
transmissible, and the woman unwittingly spread the virus to her
family in Littlepool.

(Dracula: Lord of the
Undead#2-BTS) - Lilith sent her agent, Anton Florescu, to shoot
Dracula with a dart containing the virus. Dracula then confronted
Florescu, who broke his own neck to avoid being forced to give
Dracula information. Meanwhile, the virus spread through the town
of Littlepool, which was placed under medical quarantine. Dracula
began to feel a powerful hunger, and then he encountered Maltz,
who told Dracula of a danger against all vampires and of the
significance of the plague, but Maltz perished before he could
explain the situation. In Littlepool, Dracula encountered Seward,
who was mortified at the unwanted human side effects of his virus.
Seward explained to Dracula what was going on, and that only he
might develop a means for a cure. Dracula directed Seward to take
him to his employer.

(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#3) - Seward
brought Dracula to the scientific research facility in which
Lilith was operating, and Dracula slew Lilith's servant, Armand.
Lilith, who explained how she had accomplished what she had.
However, Seward then broke free from Lilith's control and tried
to inject her with the virus as well. Surprised, Lilith swatted
Seward away, breaking his neck and killing him in the process.
Enraged at Lilith for destroying his one means of salvation,
Dracula attacked her. However, he was rapidly aging and weakening
from the effects of the virus, and Lilith smashed him to the
ground. Dracula surprised her and stuck a piece of wood through
her chest and then drove that stake into a wall.
Realizing that Seward had used his own blood
in the creation of the virus and that he had been the only one
immune to it, Dracula drank blood from Seward's corpse. Lilith
laughed at Dracula for how low he had sunken, but the process did
cure him of the virus and restore him to full power. Dracula then
blew up Lilith's laboratory (with her still in it), and then
created a powerful storm that wiped Littlepool from the face of
the Earth, eradicating the virus in the process.
Afterwards, Lilith confronted Dracula again.
Each of them claimed victory: Dracula for defeating Lilith's
plans, and Lilith for having driven Dracula to the depths that
she had, and because she knew that he would lose respect from the
other vampires for those actions. The two parted, and Lilith felt
that Dracula's downfall was on the horizon, and so she planned to
move on to other pursuits.

(Witches#1) - Lilith was presumably one of the
magical beings on Earth assaulted by the Hellphyr.

(Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#3) - Lilith and Price
(Vampire by Night) were sent on a mission by Clay Quartermain to
infiltrate the area near Stonehenge where "Merlin" had made his camp and
transformed the land into a fantasy-like world. Lilith spent much of
her time chiding her teammate for being only part-vampire. While Price
fought off a randy troll, Lilith noticed Damien Hellstorm (an
undercover Commando who had infiltrated the Lords of the Living
Lightning) being brought in to the grounds.

(Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#4) - While spying on
"Merlin," Lilith turned Price over to the mage to gain his favor. Nina
was left tied to stakes to await the morning light. Hellstorm made his
displeasure in seeing Lilith known.

(Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#5) - Lilith and
Hellstorm remained by "Merlin"'s side while the other Commandos
(including a rescued Price) prepared to invade.

(Nick Fury's Howling Commandos#6) - After bedding
"Merlin," Lilith drank his blood and believed she had killed him.
However, it was a ruse, and "Merlin" incinerated her. After shifting
through her ashes to see the future, "Merlin" realized it was not yet his
time to rule, and withdrew from the ongoing battle with the Commandos.
Once he departed, Lilith's ashes reformed and she lived once more.

(Legion of Monsters: Morbius#1/2) - As Lilith completed a
feeding, Dracula confronted her, having killed her human familiars, Noelle &
Tamsin. Dracula proposed a truce with Lilith alleging to wish to consolidate the
vampire clans under his rule. In reality, he knew that his proposal would lead
her to slaughter the leaders of the vampire clans, which she did. This left
Dracula without rivals and without blame but made Lilith many enemies.

Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman and
Gene Colan.

Both Giant-Size Chillers#1 and
Tomb of Dracula II#5 tell the story that Vlad the Elder died a year
after Dracula and Zofia's marriage. However, the detailed history of
Dracula from Tomb of Dracula II#2, which is reaffirmed in the Official
Handbook of the Marvel Universe, states that Vlad the Elder (and
his eldest son, Mircea) was killed by his own advisors (led by
John Hunyadi) for his support of Turkey while Dracula was a prisoner of
Murad II. Dracula was not married until after being freed and becoming
the Voivode (ruler) of Wallachia. So, there is a breakdown somewhere.
It makes sense to me that Dracula would not have
inherited the castle and the rule until after his father's death, so it
seems more likely that Vlad the Elder was already dead when the
marriage took place. Dracula's arranged marriage can be explained as
part of a familial and/or political agreement, and the length of the
agreement was for one year. Dracula may have been referring to the vow
as his last ties to his father when he told Zofia that his father had
died, or he was just misquoted.
The issue is not detailed/clarified, as Lilith's
entry in the OHotMU still described her parents' marriage as it was
told in GS Chillers, but the above explanation seems to make the most
sense to me. Anyone else have any light to shed?

Lilith appeared in Tomb of
Dracula I#28 as a hallucination created by Dr. Sun. She also
appeared as a personal hallucination to Dracula in Tomb of
Dracula I#60 and 68.

According to some sources
(somewhere
in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I'm told), Lilith
is not her birth name, but rather the name she was given after
she had become a vampire, using as her namesake Lilith, the
original demonqueen. However, there are several examples of both
Dracula and Zofia calling her Lilith as an infant.

Despite it just being a torso and bottom chin in
Howling Commandos#2, that is indeed Lilith walking by, as Giffen has
her explicitly in that role in the script.

Also, there's some history hinted at between her and
Hellstorm in the series but when it could have occurred is unknown.

Lilith has entries in OHotMU I#13, Deluxe Edition#18
and Horror 2005.

Thanks to DB Sommer for pointing out the
Tomb of
Dracula I#25 appearance.

Thanks to AJ Lewis and Will U for
pointing out that I had mistakenly listed Bebe Newmar as the actress
who played Lilith from Cheers.You are obviously confusing her with Julie
Newmar, who played Catwoman in the old "Batman" TV series of the 60s.

Profile by Snood and Prime
Eternal.

CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:

Lilith, Mother of Demons, mother of
the Lilin, @ Ghost Rider III#28 SOMEONE told me that Dracula's daughter was
renamed when she became a vampire, and was named after the original
demonqueen.

Lilith of Cheers, played by Bebe
Neuwirth. The character is/was a pale-skinned harpy of a woman, likely
named after the original demonqueen

Lilitu, the female werewolf, from the story
The House of Arabu, @ Conan the Barbarian#38

Charles Seward is the great-grandson of Dr.
John Seward, who hunted Dracula in the 19th Century
alongside Johnathon Harker and and Abraham van Helsing, @ Dracula
Lives#11/3